I’m starting to get ads in my Windows notifications so it’s time I move.
I got Manjaro KDE Endeavor OS with KDE installed and got my most played non-steam games running through steam proton which is awesome.
But I have a few big issues.
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My network randomly drops. A restart fixes but I can’t even download Cyberpunk with my 1GB connection before it crashes. Klogs showed something about the network manager successfully shutting down but I can’t find much else.
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No Radeon software. I sometimes need to record clips/ stream so relive is nice but the biggest problem is my second 1080p monitor I Super Resolution to fit more programs on it. I can’t find a way to replicate that functionality. I also do not know how to control Radeon anti-lag, chill, Smart Memory Access, etc.
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HDR controls. Nothing in the display settings so I’m lost
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Alternative Software I haven’t spent a lot of time looking but things like wallpaper engine, rainmeter, powertoys.
If anyone ran into the same things and has solutions it’d make my day.
EDIT:
With the overwhelming note from everyone here I distro-hopped to Endeavor OS with KDE (I liked that it let me install multiple DE’s) biggest loss is the App store but I was already using winget/choco on Windows so having to do pacman -S is pretty much the same. EDIT: Added KDEs Discover and its backend, seems to be alright.
installing plasma-wayland-session and switching to Wayland let me set display scale below 100% removing the biggest need for Radeon Software.
Network thing I’m still digging into but it persisted from the distro hop and I think is Steam-related because if I don’t launch steam it just doesn’t happen
EDIT2:
netmon logs - https://pastebin.com/wKZrV04Y demsg - https://pastebin.com/3rAPcAve
Hmm… Manjaro has a history is breakage/SSL issues.
Try a copy of Debian KDE
Manjaro is a bit of a strange distro. It works on some setups and breaks on other. On my hp laptop, manjaro stood there without breaking for a year.
On my brother’s Lenovo laptop, the distro craped itself while trying to update packages, after 2 months…
Both had aur enabled, but I had the most aur software installed. So no idea why it broke.
Since I installed fedora on his laptop, no issues for 2 years.
https://github.com/arindas/manjarno has a list of their prior adventures. EndeavorOS is the closest alternative AFAIK. But for now I guess that they are fine there. Just a heads up for OP to know to expect that something might be coming again and if they ever have a chance to choose another OS due to a fresh install that Manjaro isn’t the most recommended distro out there.
The sentiment here seems to be to let Manjaro be and distro hop. I don’t have any distro preference outside of a rolling release and a good out of box experience. My understanding is that with a rolling release, I get the most up-to-date I can be without fuffing about with kernel updates manually.
I think stability is better for a new linux person.
Although, Linux Mint might be better if didn’t need a moving wallpaper.
